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conditions under which the tree grows. The substratum on 
which this mangrove, like the Rhizophora, flourishes is commonly 
a soft estuarial mud into which a prowling collector ordinarily 
sinks for six or twelve inches or more. The fruit of the tree 
falls point downward and its weight is such that the force of the 
Flowers and foliage of Peiliciera pais ea one fourth of 
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the ae size. In the upper flower all of the 
well the concave Sepals ane _ two bracts ce oriental divarica In 
the lower flower 1 persist, though m (directe 7 ee 
in the photograph) is obscure on account of seine one ae the bra 
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fall anchors it in the mud below even though the mud at the 
time may be covered by a certain amount of water. And here in 
the mud near the upper range of the tides, planted with its 
radicle downward, it germinates (Fic. 19). 
This strange mangrove was so ein different from those of 
Bermuda, Florida, and the West Indies, with which I had asso- 
ciated rather intimately for some years, that I secured photo- 
